It’s usually the story that’s a nightmare for newspaper night editors, when the 24-hour websites come in to their own and beat the print presses to the final result. This time around, however, no-one can yet report who the UK’s next prime minister will be. See our slideshow for how…

Not all of the Washington Post (NYSE: WPO) Company’s publications are seeing a long list of declines: On the same day that its parent announced plans to sell struggling print Newsweek and Newsweek.com, the online-only Slate Group says that revenues were up 52 percent in Q1. The company didn’t break…

Right in time for video news site Newsy to promote its iPad app, the company says it has raised $2 million in a second round of funding. Newsy is run by Media Convergence Group, which started the company in 2008. Like a lot of media companies, Newsy has high hopes…

It’s not even a rounding error but one of the numbers Rupert Murdoch seemed to really enjoy tossing out during the News Corp earnings call: more than 64,000 active users for the Wall Street Journal iPad app after its first month. “Unlike the Kindle, we keep 100 percent of the…

Avatar didn’t bring home the Oscar for best picture but it helped News Corp (NYSE: NWS) to a win for its FYQ3—revenue up nearly 19 percent to $8.8 billion and a profit of $839 million. The cable networks also gave a big assist, including the best quarter ever for Fox…

		EPS*	Rev. vs Q0109	Net Inc. vs Q0109
NWS	Release		18.9%	N/A

* vs. Analysts' Estimates: Beat Met Missed

Honolulu Civil Beat, Pierre Omidyar’s experiment in local subscription-supported journalism, went fully live today, complete with a first-edition headline you can’t get past without paying 99 cents for a 15-day trial. Unless someone shared the link with you—then you can see it for free if you link your PayPal account.…

Vivek Shah, who left Time Inc. (NYSE: TWX) as digital head at news division of Time Inc. last November, has been named as an independent board member of TheStreet.com. Like a lot of content companies, TheStreet (NSDQ: TSCM) has struggled to stanch the online ad declines, while trying to build…

Martin Nisenholtz, the SVP for digital operations at The New York Times Company (NYSE: NYT), delivered the keynote address at the Wharton School of Business’ “Future of Publishing” conference this afternoon. Here’s his speech, in which he talks at length about the importance of engagement on the web: Thank you.…

Greg Osberg, the long-time Newsweek executive who later headed up mobile video startup Buzzwire, has been hired as CEO of the Philadelphia Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com by the media properties’ new owners. In its report, the Inquirer describes Osberg’s hiring “as a dramatic signal that the new entity ...…

During its annual meeting today, the Associated Press board conducted the usual business—adding Washington Post Publisher Katharine Weymouth and *New York Times Co.* Vice Chairman Michael Golden to the board, agreeing to a July rollout of its News Registry, approving a new college football vertical with member rev share. It…

Whatever relationship you already have with NYTimes.com, if you aren’t paying for access, it’s not deep enough. At least, that’s part of the message implied in Arthur Sulzberger, Jr.‘s prepared remarks for this week’s annual shareholders meeting. “Creating an online business model with the goal of yielding larger financial returns…

A few more tea leaves to add in when comes to the Washington Post and paid content, courtesy of Boisfeuillet Jones, Jr. and Ira Stoll, who wrote up the Washington Post Co. (NYSE: WPO) vice chairman’s weekend talk at a Harvard Crimson lunch. Jones, who was publisher of the Post…

The blog consolidation continues with Mail.com Media’s acquisition of The Boy Genius Report, a top-visited mobile site known for digging up big scoops—while also remaining mysteriously hush-hush about the website owner’s identity. Along with the sale, Boy Genius revealed his name and story on how he got here: Jonathan Geller,…

Buried inside today’s not-as-bad-as-feared newspaper circulation FAS-FAX (newspaper circ was only down 8.75 percent daily), some data on what’s going on with e-editions. The number of daily electronic editions sold by the newspapers at the top of the category rose 40 percent, according to reports made to the Audit Bureau…

Sometime this summer, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette will make it a little harder for readers to get local news at Telegram.com —and, the New York Times Co. (NYSE: NYT) paper hopes, a little easier for it to make some money online. The paper told readers Sunday that it plans…

EveryBlock—the MSNBC Interactive-owned hyperlocal aggregator—is bulking up its site with data from SeeClickFix, a startup that lets anybody report an issue in need of government action in their community. The two companies—which are both considered to be among the top innovators in the local space online—will announce their partnership later…

TheWrap.com, the Hollywood business focused blog started by former NYT Hollywood correspondent Sharon Waxman, has closed a $2 million second round of funding, she tells us. The round was led by Maveron, the VC firm co-founded by Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and other first round investors. The site raised $500K…

Citizen-J site NowPublic has laid off several members of its dozen-person staff, paidContent has been told, confirming portions of an earlier post by Reportr.net. In an e-mail message to paidContent, NowPublic’s founder Leonard Brody said that, contrary to the earlier report that the site was headed for its demise, NowPublic…

One of the world’s leading newspaper auditors has added mobile phones to the list of mediums that it tracks, providing validation to the wireless industry, while also potentially giving publications a shot of new readers as traditional print audiences decline. To do so, the interactive unit of the Audit Bureau…